
Pave and Carta both promise to tell you what to pay people. The real question is whose paychecks are in the sample - and the two tools answer it very differently.

Pave starts with live HR-system connections; Carta starts with private-market cap tables. The better compensation benchmark depends on which version of the labor market you need to see.
Mercer built an 80-year business around decisions companies cannot afford to guess at - what to pay, which benefits to fund, how to redesign work and where to invest retirement money. Now its vast store of workforce data is becoming a product in its own right.